![]() ![]() what room is that? Oh, that's the other thing: does this puzzle think it's modeled on the board game "Clue"?! Because the whole "room" thing is totally "Clue". In a real mystery, the McGuffin is the thing everyone's chasing so that The Story Can Be Propelled Forward And We Can Learn Things About The Characters. First of all, here's the wikipedia definition of McGuffin: " In fiction, a MacGuffin (sometimes McGuffin ) is an object, device, or event that is necessary to the plot and the motivation of the characters, but insignificant, unimportant, or irrelevant in itself." But here the alleged McGuffin is all that there is. It's not even a good parody, in that it doesn't seem to understand the terms of what it's parodying. As opposed to this puzzle, where there is nothing. If they're well written, you get invested, even when you know the plot is contrived. Their identities, jobs, behavior, all that matters. OK, so, see, the thing about mysteries is that there is a narrative. ![]() the "parlor," or middle section), and there you will find the McGuffin Diamond, in that you will find MCGUFFIN spelled out in diamond shape, starting with the "M" at the end of SUM (63A) and proceeding clockwise through all the letters adjacent to the little black "+" sign at the center of the grid: Annnnnnyway, the "cook" is Apple CEO TIM Cook ( 65A: Suspect #3), and since the thief left behind an APPLE SWEATSHIRT (sidenote: I cannot get over how dumb a theme answer that is), we can assume that TIM Cook is the thief, and since he left the diamond not in his own "room," but in THE ONE TO THE WEST OF HERE (sidenote: seriously, wtf with these themers.), we should look not in the section where TIM is (the east) but to the "room" west of there (i.e. So ( 28A) is COLE so that's COLE "porter," (50A) is GERARD so that's GERARD Butler, etc. the butler, driver, cook, baker, page, porter, barber or carpenter) are all actually last names of celebrities, who are clued as thru. the "staff members" / suspects described in the Puzzle Notes (i.e. "You caught me!," says the thief, who then admits: "The diamond isn't here in my room, but it's hidden in THE ONE TO THE WEST OF HERE" (102A). ![]()
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